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i'm actually using the term not the way nixon will late year it to describe this foreign policy in the way that caufield describes him in the which isache novel, catcher in the rye, which documents a progression towards a nervous breakdown. richard nixon is undergoing a nervous breakdown during the story, thinking of himself in that sense of being mad, and all the connotations that term had, and he knows he is on the cusp of either making or breaking his national political career, the moment he rescues his career from that moment onwards. real noir feeling to the book. he is a nnoirish character and i wanted to tell a spence -- suspense story. there's a very tight internal structure the book. at it kind of a slice of history, looking at a moment. it starts with nixon's rise to national popularity, being put on the ticket during the spring of 1952. follows the conventions of the summer. these convention one of the hat set of conventions where things were actually determined at conventions. television is starting to take over conventions but there's actual serious decision making, and i
i'm actually using the term not the way nixon will late year it to describe this foreign policy in the way that caufield describes him in the which isache novel, catcher in the rye, which documents a progression towards a nervous breakdown. richard nixon is undergoing a nervous breakdown during the story, thinking of himself in that sense of being mad, and all the connotations that term had, and he knows he is on the cusp of either making or breaking his national political career, the moment he...
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it's not just about the foreign-policy debate which there are people who are trying to go towards the left militaristic vision of the cold war and towards the kind of center. it's also a real hard-line, right-wing outlet within the republican party that most clearly survived in robert taft's run for the presidency against eisenhower during the campaign. taft as we all know loses but he is an interesting conversation in which he says to eisenhower after congratulating him, that the theme that he once eisenhower to pursue is that liberty is being threatened by creeping socialism in every domestic field. that there is the kind of totalitarianism that is invading american politics and in fact eisenhower takes this language up much more than i think we really realize, this sort of hard right strip the new deal because the new deal is interchangeable with the version of socialism or totalitarianism. this becomes especially difficult, sort of hard-line language becomes especially difficult once nixon have to face up to the thing that gets him into trouble which is a problem we would put in t
it's not just about the foreign-policy debate which there are people who are trying to go towards the left militaristic vision of the cold war and towards the kind of center. it's also a real hard-line, right-wing outlet within the republican party that most clearly survived in robert taft's run for the presidency against eisenhower during the campaign. taft as we all know loses but he is an interesting conversation in which he says to eisenhower after congratulating him, that the theme that he...
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ike was in charge of foreign policy. but it was useful to use dulles as the bad cop. so the famous massive retaliation speech in which dulles said if the soviets try anything, basically, we're going to nuke 'em or words to that effect, everybody thought that was dell lues' speech. we found out years later by looking in the speech files thattizen hour had written the -- that eisenhower had written the key paragraph. but he wanted dulles to give the speech. so it was useful for ike to use john foster dulles as sort of the heavy. now, dulles occasionally got a little too heavy and said things that were incendiary and problematic. more problematic for ike was alan dulles, john foster dulles' brother who was the head of cia. a relationship entirely too cozy. and alan dulles was a huge risk taker. and at first some of these risks seemed to work. the coups in guatemala and iran which today look horrible but at the time looked like a way to contain communism on the cheap. they looked like they worked, they were success. this sure is better than sending in whole armies to do t
ike was in charge of foreign policy. but it was useful to use dulles as the bad cop. so the famous massive retaliation speech in which dulles said if the soviets try anything, basically, we're going to nuke 'em or words to that effect, everybody thought that was dell lues' speech. we found out years later by looking in the speech files thattizen hour had written the -- that eisenhower had written the key paragraph. but he wanted dulles to give the speech. so it was useful for ike to use john...
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i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer presidents on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say about richard nixon is he believed in the big play, or you'd call it a hail mary pass. he was willing to take huge risks. not all presidents are willing to do that. i mean, china was a huge risk. detente with the soviet union the way he did it was a risk. so he had a lot to offer presidents. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was an effort to make it difficult for the tapes to become available. richard nixon, by the way, was totally in his right to assume that the tapes belonged to him because every president until richard nixon owned their papers. the national archives didn't know that there were, that there were kennedy tapes until, until the nixon tapes were released, and the kennedy family then told the national archives you know that safe in the warehouses to which we only have keyes? there are tapes in there. the national archives didn't know. and so president kennedy, president johnson and president nixon assumed that the tapes
i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer presidents on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say about richard nixon is he believed in the big play, or you'd call it a hail mary pass. he was willing to take huge risks. not all presidents are willing to do that. i mean, china was a huge risk. detente with the soviet union the way he did it was a risk. so he had a lot to offer presidents. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was an effort to make it difficult for...
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hosting the event today is doctor pucci who is the center for foreign policy studies and he previously served as a senior research fellow for defense and he is well-versed in a special area of operations and cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil securities. he served for three decades as a special forces officer and pentagon official in july of 2001 he assumed the duties of secretary rumsfeld and work daily with him for the next five and a half years. then he continued as deputy secretary of defense. please join me in welcoming steve bucci. [applause] >> let me add my welcome to all of you. i think he will have a real treat this morning. as john has mentioned, i am a special forces officer by profession and this area is near and dear to my heart. i mentioned to max when he came in that when i was a cadet at west point i had bought a book that had just been published. it was called war in the shadows and that book from 1975 until now has really been a sort of benchmark for this kind of historical review of this subject area and that is a long time for a book to keep th
hosting the event today is doctor pucci who is the center for foreign policy studies and he previously served as a senior research fellow for defense and he is well-versed in a special area of operations and cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil securities. he served for three decades as a special forces officer and pentagon official in july of 2001 he assumed the duties of secretary rumsfeld and work daily with him for the next five and a half years. then he continued as...
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kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator game. it was the book that he published in 1960 called the strategy of peace, which is a compilation of this in a speech. i was astounded his speeches on foreign policy because they were really remarkable documents. i mean, he's on and on tough issues. he put them in a really sophisticated, historical context. he would kendis the array of possible solutions and would offer a really detailed plan about how they should go forward on a particular issue. and there's a couple that just want to touch on briefly. the first one, and it is ast
kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator...
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kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator game. it was the book that he published in 1960 called the strategy of peace, which is a compilation of this in a speech. i was astounded his speeches on foreign policy because they were really remarkable documents. i mean, he's on and on tough issues. he put them in a really sophisticated, historical context. he would kendis the array of possible solutions and would offer a really detailed plan about how they should go forward on a particular issue. and there's a couple that just want to touch on briefly. the first one, and it is ast
kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator...
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his foreign policy became much more assertive. he also realized when trying to engage with international public, it was very difficult -- it was proving to be very difficult for russia because the negative image that the world had of russia. so they decided they had to do something about it. we should also remember that the international context of getting a little more -- a little more hostile, if you may, you know, for russia because of the extension of nato. because the war in afghanistan and iraq which was not too far from russian borders. and the -- spreading and moving across the space. and a lot of russians saw that as being a western mastermind sort of project, you know. and they realized they have to do something. they have to revamp it or actually start it in term of improving their image abroad. so what a did they do? i'll provide some examples here, and there are many. i'll cover a couple and focus mostly on what the government has been trying to do specifically the government you talked about, you know, other comings
his foreign policy became much more assertive. he also realized when trying to engage with international public, it was very difficult -- it was proving to be very difficult for russia because the negative image that the world had of russia. so they decided they had to do something about it. we should also remember that the international context of getting a little more -- a little more hostile, if you may, you know, for russia because of the extension of nato. because the war in afghanistan...
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it may be the most important foreign-policy speech ever given. our foreign policy to this day, to this week, to president obama talking a week ago about our role in syria are not powerful in syria, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy. all of this stuff, all of these questions. is america the policeman of the world? that all goes back as indeed does every major policy decision come is certainly one involving an american incursion i'll spare in the world all goes back to one line, the world must be made safe for democracy. .. suddenly we're going doorbell. week, a country, with him in the army the size of that of portugal was now going to send 2 million men overseas. and i'm not talking about a little crossing here, we're talking about the lack to goshen. indeed, america went to war, and as a result of the war, america emerged as the first great modern superpower. indeed, a military industrial complex for the first time. wilson's main reason -- there were all sorts of things and are chapters in the book on this, but
it may be the most important foreign-policy speech ever given. our foreign policy to this day, to this week, to president obama talking a week ago about our role in syria are not powerful in syria, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy. all of this stuff, all of these questions. is america the policeman of the world? that all goes back as indeed does every major policy decision come is certainly one involving an american incursion i'll spare in the world all goes...
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the college neoconservatism in foreign policy, what is actually the conservative form of idealism about democracy, about transforming countries, about making things better by doing lots and lots of these things. and to more or less conclude that that was just not going to work in that we needed to entrench in become much more realistic our approach to foreign policy. and so i described them as such as they saw themselves as rejecting neoconservatism but it also involves essentially rejecting a lot of this kind of liberal international stuff that they regarded as kind of soft and squishy. regarded enough in this a way that conservatism regards it. soft and squishy, if not dangerous. and that tendency is very special in one particular way. the bush realist's that a conservative realist's tend to take words very, very seriously. they think that words bind. they think that words have ways to come back and buy you. and so one of the features about bolton and the bush realist's was they're very, very careful negotiation over forms of words. now, if you are the liberal internationalist idealis
the college neoconservatism in foreign policy, what is actually the conservative form of idealism about democracy, about transforming countries, about making things better by doing lots and lots of these things. and to more or less conclude that that was just not going to work in that we needed to entrench in become much more realistic our approach to foreign policy. and so i described them as such as they saw themselves as rejecting neoconservatism but it also involves essentially rejecting a...
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we are them and they did not hijack american or american foreign policy but did what we wanted that is one of the reasons we had forgotten them if we want to find who was to blame of what the dulles brothers left behind rather than point a finger at the dulles brothers on the wall baby look in the of the year would be more effective turco . but as a first force was missionary calvinism the dulles brothers drop in the parsonage their father was a clergyman and so was their father and great-grandfather many great-uncle's and also missionaries' the grandfather went off to india to convert that he then sand at home they always had missionaries on their way back from china or the middle east faugh it was a burst in the missionary ketose. this was not just plant but a very specific form and it had to essential principles. the first is the world is made up of good and evil forces. christiansen not have the right to sit home and hope that good triumphs over evil you half -- evil you have to convert those and bring them to the white if you don't do that you are not fulfilling the purpose for wh
we are them and they did not hijack american or american foreign policy but did what we wanted that is one of the reasons we had forgotten them if we want to find who was to blame of what the dulles brothers left behind rather than point a finger at the dulles brothers on the wall baby look in the of the year would be more effective turco . but as a first force was missionary calvinism the dulles brothers drop in the parsonage their father was a clergyman and so was their father and...
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let's talk about foreign policy. so, what did the founders that you talk about in the book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that again this is a matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue than the discussion and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it, and even then you had to very distinctive physicians. hamilton was pro-british and jefferson was pro french. and this is what led to huge split between those and this is how part of the federalist and the republicans were put with all sorts of other things i think that the hamiltonian position that washington accepted was america ought to be neutral had no navy didn't have any viet the time, had a strong interest in trade with both india and france with just basic body of delhi and self-interest that should remain neutral. neutrality favored the british because there is no american support for the british but a lot of americans wanted to go out and be privateers for franc
let's talk about foreign policy. so, what did the founders that you talk about in the book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that again this is a matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue than the discussion and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it, and even then you had to very distinctive physicians. hamilton was pro-british and jefferson was pro french. and this is what led to huge...
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policies, his secretary of state, secretary of defense robert mcnamara and national security adviser george the period as her body, who already viewed johnson's grossly distorted lenses, has rolled some ex-con concerned that the texan was an ignorant lightweight unsuited to world leadership. the gap between the nation's two top officials extended to their lies straight jacqueline kennedy, graduate in farmington, connecticut had attended in paris. she was clever, fashionable and beautiful, spoke french like a native, but she was snobbish and extravagant. she was clearly in a dormitory handsome husband. she cannot be counted not to undertake one political responsibility, although when she dish impressed everyone with her talent and style. she was jealous of her husband underwent minimus often resentful in with john. she poked fun at mrs. johnson's devotion to her husband, remarking that one point that ladybird would curl up pennsylvania avenue on her hands and knees over broken glass from an end. if i may interject, a very snide, disgusting remark. ladybird in fact was smart, plain and
policies, his secretary of state, secretary of defense robert mcnamara and national security adviser george the period as her body, who already viewed johnson's grossly distorted lenses, has rolled some ex-con concerned that the texan was an ignorant lightweight unsuited to world leadership. the gap between the nation's two top officials extended to their lies straight jacqueline kennedy, graduate in farmington, connecticut had attended in paris. she was clever, fashionable and beautiful, spoke...
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so we're making enterprise a fundamental part of our foreign policy too. since 2011 almost a billion of few export contracts have been secured for the u.k.'s business thanks to support from u.k. export finance. and i want us to build on that. and the lord mayor and i will be leading from the front again in the coming months. this week i'm leading trade visits to india and the gulf, and i can announce this evening that in early december i will be leading another trade delegation to china. as china's new leadership sets its direction for the next ten years, as their country's star continues to rise in the world, i will take senior british min thesters as well as business -- ministers as well as business leaders from every sector large and small to forge a relationship that will benefit both our countries and bring real rewards for our peoples. opening the way for british companies to benefit from china's vast and varied markets and preparing the way for a new level of chinese investment here in the u.k. this is a relationship it is a for the long term, that
so we're making enterprise a fundamental part of our foreign policy too. since 2011 almost a billion of few export contracts have been secured for the u.k.'s business thanks to support from u.k. export finance. and i want us to build on that. and the lord mayor and i will be leading from the front again in the coming months. this week i'm leading trade visits to india and the gulf, and i can announce this evening that in early december i will be leading another trade delegation to china. as...
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are we about to foreign policy to protect her interests quite are we involved in foreign policy to project ideology into the world? >> guest: >> host: were not in the dispensable nation. 25 years after the creation of the constitution not too far from here come the paper and the white house that the country very much at risk. so the people that you write about in the book, the contemporary authors, how do they translate or try to train late with the frankenstein set to contemporary debates about foreign policy in iraq, afghanistan? >> guest: a lot of to quote washington's farewell address and say we should be involved. there tends to be a very nativist echoing through those folks and that discourse. >> host: what you mean by nativist? >> guest: let the world friday we just need to pull back and take care of ourselves. i don't sense among the contemporary conservative writers, i don't get a sense of foreign policy coherence do we do with domestic issues. some of them are pro-intervention, neoconservative, breaking. we need to explore our democracy. a lot of them are much more we need to pul
are we about to foreign policy to protect her interests quite are we involved in foreign policy to project ideology into the world? >> guest: >> host: were not in the dispensable nation. 25 years after the creation of the constitution not too far from here come the paper and the white house that the country very much at risk. so the people that you write about in the book, the contemporary authors, how do they translate or try to train late with the frankenstein set to contemporary...
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is probably the most significant in foreign policy terms. secondly as i mentioned, i think that maintaining our defense and diplomacy budgets, i didn't mention diplomacy but i think that they're both going to be important in the five to 10 years ahead, is going to be significant. the americas will look at a range of decisions which are coming up in the uk after our next election. and will judge whether we have the appetite, the political will to remain active, security and political players in world. i mentioned tried. are a number of other decisions about our defense budget. which are coming up and which will be debated in the united states dependent on which way we eventually go. thirdly, i think our ability to influence the united states the pins on having assets and expertise available and on the table. and that means retaining our expertise and assets particularly in areas that will continue to be primarily the middle east but also increasingly the asia-pacific region. so as i said we need to i think resolve for ourselves whether we pla
is probably the most significant in foreign policy terms. secondly as i mentioned, i think that maintaining our defense and diplomacy budgets, i didn't mention diplomacy but i think that they're both going to be important in the five to 10 years ahead, is going to be significant. the americas will look at a range of decisions which are coming up in the uk after our next election. and will judge whether we have the appetite, the political will to remain active, security and political players in...
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foreign policy. red lines in syria a is a perfect example. i couldn't understand for a second why president obama declared very early during the syrian uprising that president assad had to go. i don't understand why he had to say that. president assad, of course, is a nasty eye rant, but he was not -- tyrant, but he was not known in the united states. we were not aware, at least the administration never made public any evidence that president assad was acting against the united states. to the best of my knowledge, we had diplomatic relations with assad. we had senator kerry, our current secretary of state, coming to damascus and being quite friendly to him. so the question was why is that assuming syria was an independent country, not an american colony, why would the president of the united states be saying assad had to go unless we had a specific plan to remove him? and that, of course, quite similar to -- [inaudible] in the case of egypt and ore countries where he was -- other countries where he w
foreign policy. red lines in syria a is a perfect example. i couldn't understand for a second why president obama declared very early during the syrian uprising that president assad had to go. i don't understand why he had to say that. president assad, of course, is a nasty eye rant, but he was not -- tyrant, but he was not known in the united states. we were not aware, at least the administration never made public any evidence that president assad was acting against the united states. to the...
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let's talk about foreign policy. what did the founders you talk about inner book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that, again, this was matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue in the washington administration and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it. and even then you had two very distinctive positions. hamilton was roughly pro british, jefferson was ruthly from french, and this led to a huge split between the two men. the national bank issue was controversial but this is how the parties, the federalists and the republicans aligned, whether they were going to favor britain or france in that war that would eventually produce napoleon... to allow americans to account said american ships and let them participate in some ways in the left-handed jefferson did this because he thought we went to france for their help and resolution and the french were fighting for democracy and what really evolves them are two positions,
let's talk about foreign policy. what did the founders you talk about inner book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that, again, this was matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue in the washington administration and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it. and even then you had two very distinctive positions. hamilton was roughly pro british, jefferson was ruthly from french, and this led to...
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talk a little bit about foreign-policy. what did the founders that you talk about in your book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think again, this was a matter of great dispute. there was major foreign-policy issue in the washington administration and that was a war between france and england and what they were going to do about it. and even then, you had two very distinctive positions. hamilton was roughly pro-british and jefferson was roughly pro-french and this is what really led to the huge split between those two men. the national bank issue is controversial, but this was how the party the federalist and republicans alliance was whether they would favor britain nor france in that war that would eventually produce all sorts of other things. i think that the hamiltonian decision which washington accepted was that america ought to be neutral because it had no army, it had no navy. it didn't have money at the time. it had a strong interest in trade with both england and france, and just they seek m
talk a little bit about foreign-policy. what did the founders that you talk about in your book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think again, this was a matter of great dispute. there was major foreign-policy issue in the washington administration and that was a war between france and england and what they were going to do about it. and even then, you had two very distinctive positions. hamilton was roughly pro-british and jefferson was roughly pro-french and this...
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>> guest: the obama administration can slip between two quite different camps in its foreign policy. on the one hand, you have a way for people who typically described as the liberal internationalists, people who believe in nation in the u.n. to not just be this kind of diplomatic table for everybody negotiates and argues the debate that lets their views be known, but something which is supposed to take on local governance and take aspects of sovereignty from sovereign states. we, the united states, have traditionally been suspicious of that. the reason is we are the world hegemon that we are not going to wind up seeking that kind of authority to the united nations. but there was a very significant chunk of the incoming foreign policy establishment they really did believe this and saw this has the way forward. at the same time, they were counterbalanced by wayne of the democratic party and the obama administration and led really by secretary clinton of new realist to the that the bush idealism. what caught neoconservatives and in foreign policy, but it's the conservative form of idea
>> guest: the obama administration can slip between two quite different camps in its foreign policy. on the one hand, you have a way for people who typically described as the liberal internationalists, people who believe in nation in the u.n. to not just be this kind of diplomatic table for everybody negotiates and argues the debate that lets their views be known, but something which is supposed to take on local governance and take aspects of sovereignty from sovereign states. we, the...
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clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he brought to the right wing and abolishing the arms control and disarmed the agency. those we need in washington for the making of policy and he expanded nato you're taking the military and a that is a factor or not and bring more members to draw closer to russia and even bring in as george bush did the former hud republics of the soviet union into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about this and he lost his nerve on the things the country needed to do in terms of international agreements need to be a part of the accord and signed a comprehensive test ban tre
clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he...
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obama unfortunately comes in with very little background in foreign policy and never paid much attention, served in washington only two years and i was a very enthusiastic supporter of the obama and remain, but those of us who have looked at him new national security could be a problem and when he appointed secretary of state for domestic reasons and a retired marine general to be the national security adviser he lasted about one year and put leon panetta i know he is one of your neighbors but he was captured by the operational mentality of the cia when he was in there more than a month this was the extremely weak national security team. obama was also ruled by the military that is how you got the search. i think he realizes he was had by the military and that is very important in one of the reasons i am a little more optimistic for the second term that this is a wiser man with foreign policy be looked at the fact he ended the war in iraq, he is meandering toward ending the war in afghanistan and allowing them for of the pentagon that is the institution of the fine motor skills of a dino
obama unfortunately comes in with very little background in foreign policy and never paid much attention, served in washington only two years and i was a very enthusiastic supporter of the obama and remain, but those of us who have looked at him new national security could be a problem and when he appointed secretary of state for domestic reasons and a retired marine general to be the national security adviser he lasted about one year and put leon panetta i know he is one of your neighbors but...
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i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer the president on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say is he believed in the big-play. we call it a hail mary pass. china was the huge risk. so he had a lot to offer. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was difficult for the tapes to be available. richard nixon, by the way, he was totally in his right to assume that the tapes belonged to him. because every president until richard nixon on their papers. they didn't know that there were kennedy tapes until the nixon tapes were released and the kennedy family then told them that, you know that scene in the warehouse? well, the national archives didn't even know. president kennedy, president johnson, they assumed that the tapes that they were making would belong to them. well, when he cut a deal to try to get back the tapes, congress intervened and passed a special law. the nixon library is the only one covered by one law. that law stipulated that members of the public have the right to get an information. president nixon then sued. and it was
i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer the president on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say is he believed in the big-play. we call it a hail mary pass. china was the huge risk. so he had a lot to offer. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was difficult for the tapes to be available. richard nixon, by the way, he was totally in his right to assume that the tapes belonged to him. because every president until richard nixon on their papers. they didn't...
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obama unfortunately comes in with very little background of foreign policy, never paid much attention, served in washington only two years. i was a very enthusiastic supporter of obama and remain but we new national security could be a problem. and appointed as secretary of state and secretary of defense and a retired marine general for domestic reasons and he lasted one year and putting in leon panetta and know he is your neighbor in california but captured by the mentality of the cia. this was an extremely weak national security team. obama also was ruled by the military that is how you got the surge of forces. i think he realizes he was had and that is important and why i am optimistic about the second term this is a wiser man with foreign policy but he has ended the war in iraq meandering to ending the war in afghanistan and allowing the pentagon with the motor skills of a dinosaur such as a timetable for withdrawal all obama has to do i look at the gorbachev experience, and came in 1985, gave a secret speech 1986 faugh denouncing afghanistan, had told shultz we are getting out wi
obama unfortunately comes in with very little background of foreign policy, never paid much attention, served in washington only two years. i was a very enthusiastic supporter of obama and remain but we new national security could be a problem. and appointed as secretary of state and secretary of defense and a retired marine general for domestic reasons and he lasted one year and putting in leon panetta and know he is your neighbor in california but captured by the mentality of the cia. this...
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we are ensuring that intelligence reports and activities are consistent with support of foreign policy and national security objectives in this includes a dedicated staff with significant expertise in this area, which is this as well as practical once in finding this with the diplomatic communications and the policymakers understand and can evaluate the proposed activities with potential foreign-policy consequences and this is part of the chief of mission overseas. madam chairman, if confirmed i believe i will bring extensive experience to the position of assistant secretary and i have served and a variety of demanding positions, both in washington and overseas, including most recent as secretary of the state department and the ambassador to greece. another firsthand the challenges facing the policymakers as well as the incredible demands on their time and attention and i appreciate the critical contribution that we have made and we continue to make in providing the president and the secretary of state and other policymakers who timely and independent wealth of his analysis on a broad
we are ensuring that intelligence reports and activities are consistent with support of foreign policy and national security objectives in this includes a dedicated staff with significant expertise in this area, which is this as well as practical once in finding this with the diplomatic communications and the policymakers understand and can evaluate the proposed activities with potential foreign-policy consequences and this is part of the chief of mission overseas. madam chairman, if confirmed...
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remember come the cia doesn't make foreign policy. the foreign policy team has decided to rebalance their focus on asia and obviously appropriately to focus on mali and in particular, which is a field state, where we have reason to believe this again is in the price, that a lot of terror organizations are grouping and training. the cia's role is only to provide intelligence about these parts of the world, not to make policy. i have worried over the years and adding that john brennan has, to, that too much of our intelligence practical. it focuses on who's coming up with the next hill on the battlefield. i think everybody gets it. most of afghanistan over recent years, how the wars are going to come out. it is a good idea to restore some of our focus on other parts of the world, including asia. i would hope that every bill and says the former policymaker and someone who has a policy institution, i would hope to rebalance tuesday show will focus on how we make relationships with china and others are difficult. i hope we focus on how we
remember come the cia doesn't make foreign policy. the foreign policy team has decided to rebalance their focus on asia and obviously appropriately to focus on mali and in particular, which is a field state, where we have reason to believe this again is in the price, that a lot of terror organizations are grouping and training. the cia's role is only to provide intelligence about these parts of the world, not to make policy. i have worried over the years and adding that john brennan has, to,...
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foreign policy. red wines and syria is a perfect example. i can't understand for a second why president obama declared during the hearing that president al-assad had to go. i don't understand why he had to say that. president al-assad of course [inaudible] not aware at least the station never made evidence that public debate to president al-assad was acting against the united states. to the best of my knowledge we had a diplomatic relations with al-assad and the current secretary of state. so the question was why is it that it was an independent country, not an american colony why would the president of the united states be saying that al-assad had to go unless we have a specific plan to remove him? and that of course quite similar in the case of egypt and other countries where he was saying that mubarak had to go and the situation in egypt where mubarak had him in power again and the administration doesn't seem [inaudible] but in the case of syria there were indications of chemical weapons and was t
foreign policy. red wines and syria is a perfect example. i can't understand for a second why president obama declared during the hearing that president al-assad had to go. i don't understand why he had to say that. president al-assad of course [inaudible] not aware at least the station never made evidence that public debate to president al-assad was acting against the united states. to the best of my knowledge we had a diplomatic relations with al-assad and the current secretary of state. so...
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i see correctives in the area of foreign policy and strength and great potential domestically and i have been given that it is hard not to. but it is not inevitable to get it right to. to put up the argument. i work in the idea business and i believe ideas matter and i am hoping by putting out ideas like this it can help influence or contribute to the debate about where we're going and how we get there and if people are sympathetic to what we should do should not be doing, there is no reason optimism doesn't become reality. >> thank you very much. i am really happy you wrote this book because there are a lot of books that are interesting and richard will be signing the book after this session but there are also those that are constructive and i think it pushes us to the debate we need as a country and whenever i have agreed with richard over the years it always means he gets into some kind of trouble. [laughter] i hope the only means they read the book and think about it. it is about restoring internal sources of power and balance to what the united states aims to do in the world and how
i see correctives in the area of foreign policy and strength and great potential domestically and i have been given that it is hard not to. but it is not inevitable to get it right to. to put up the argument. i work in the idea business and i believe ideas matter and i am hoping by putting out ideas like this it can help influence or contribute to the debate about where we're going and how we get there and if people are sympathetic to what we should do should not be doing, there is no reason...
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foreign policy. during his 30 years in public life and more than 25 years in the senate, senator kerry championed many issues. the senate foreign relations committee favorably reported his nomination to the senate unanimously and presented senator kerry with an honorary resolution highlighting a few of his many accomplishments. among his accomplishments are the partnership he formed with senator john mccain that led to an effort to investigate the fate of american soldiers unaccounted for in vietnam and normalize relations with a former enemy which is in essence vietnam. his leadership of difficult, sensitive and comprehensive investigations in the senate on everything from the bank of credit and commerce international and illegal money laundering to the noriega regime in panama is well known. advocating for a democratic elections in the philippines and serving with senator lugar as part of a senator delegation that uncovered the fraud that led to the ouster of president noriega. advocating for progr
foreign policy. during his 30 years in public life and more than 25 years in the senate, senator kerry championed many issues. the senate foreign relations committee favorably reported his nomination to the senate unanimously and presented senator kerry with an honorary resolution highlighting a few of his many accomplishments. among his accomplishments are the partnership he formed with senator john mccain that led to an effort to investigate the fate of american soldiers unaccounted for in...
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national domestic issue of foreign policy. those are all things she could've ordered she decided to abandon the alaska governorship and not do any of that. and i think became someone who is very well-paid, someone who has a relatively small on the scale of national politics. ardent, small following. that at this point i think the notion that should ever be able to seek national office again without, given the path she's chosen, is i think largely off the table. but i think she enjoys the popularity she still has, and she'll probably be able to live a very comfortable and marginally influential life to take to the platforms that should really occupies on cable television and on facebook and she will continue to be a presence in our lives, if not an essential presence, going forward. >> surprise there wasn't a round of applause for that. [laughter] i've misjudged the audience against. [laughter] >> they wanted me to say she was on a slow boat to china. [applause] >> it seems to me that since the day obama was elected, the republ
national domestic issue of foreign policy. those are all things she could've ordered she decided to abandon the alaska governorship and not do any of that. and i think became someone who is very well-paid, someone who has a relatively small on the scale of national politics. ardent, small following. that at this point i think the notion that should ever be able to seek national office again without, given the path she's chosen, is i think largely off the table. but i think she enjoys the...
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>> guest: the obama administration was split between two camps in foreign policy. on the one hand you had a wave of people i would describe typically described as a liberal internationals, people who do believe in the mission of the u.n. not to be this kind of diplomatic table where everybody negotiates and argues and debates but something which is actually supposed to take on aspects of global governance and aspects of sovereignty from sovereign states, and the united states traditionally has been very suspicious, liberal/conservative doesn't matter and the reason we are the world's hegemon and we are not going to wind up seeing that authority to the united nations but there was a very significant chunk of the incoming foreign policy establishment to the obama administration who really do believe this and thought this was the way forward. at the same time they were counterbalanced by a wing of the democratic party and the obama administration and led by secretary clinton, new liberal realists who have looked at the bush idealism, we call it neoconservatism in fore
>> guest: the obama administration was split between two camps in foreign policy. on the one hand you had a wave of people i would describe typically described as a liberal internationals, people who do believe in the mission of the u.n. not to be this kind of diplomatic table where everybody negotiates and argues and debates but something which is actually supposed to take on aspects of global governance and aspects of sovereignty from sovereign states, and the united states...
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policy that we are and now and all of the pentagon's foreign installations. it's hundreds and hundreds of pieces, major bases located all over the world from which it attempts to intimidate foreigners to create fear and to prop up a straw man that it chooses to support today. although it may turn on them tomorrow of course. all of this meddling and chronic interventionism has not made the american people better off. i didn't say never. there may be instances in which one can make a positive case for it. but it's the exception to the general rule. so the main thing that would have to happen is an alteration of what you might call the deep fault stance of american foreign policy which is the idea that america ought to be involved in everybody's troubles all over the world. that is a basic mistake on the desire to act or the capacity to act. it mistakes the idea that one knows enough to act intelligently with the reality of the ignorance and even the people in the state department and the pentagon have about what is going on in other parts of the world and apply
policy that we are and now and all of the pentagon's foreign installations. it's hundreds and hundreds of pieces, major bases located all over the world from which it attempts to intimidate foreigners to create fear and to prop up a straw man that it chooses to support today. although it may turn on them tomorrow of course. all of this meddling and chronic interventionism has not made the american people better off. i didn't say never. there may be instances in which one can make a positive...
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what is foreign policy? >> guest: well, it's -- the fp group is a division of washington post that publishes foreign policy magazine. the foreign policy web site which is now much bigger than the magazine, we have almost three-and-a-half million visitor a month to the web site and run a series of events and other programs on international issues. >> host: mr. rothkopf, in "power, inc." you have a chapter, a chapter about a swedish goat. what is that story? >> guest: well, i wanted to go back to sort of the origin story of the company and, of course, companies of one form or another have existed since the beginning of time. but the oldest corporation that's still in existence is a swedish company that started perhaps a thousand years ago when a goat wandered away from its owner and came back with red horns because it had drunk from a treatment that was full of copper ore. and the owner came back and found the stream and started digging for copper, and that became a copper company and became a company called -
what is foreign policy? >> guest: well, it's -- the fp group is a division of washington post that publishes foreign policy magazine. the foreign policy web site which is now much bigger than the magazine, we have almost three-and-a-half million visitor a month to the web site and run a series of events and other programs on international issues. >> host: mr. rothkopf, in "power, inc." you have a chapter, a chapter about a swedish goat. what is that story? >> guest:...
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policy is a terrific essay called once upon a time in afghanistan. and people just can't get enough. there are women in pencil skirts and -- the sort of hang out clubs and stuff and there was a sense of afghanistan on a trajectory of the development trajectory and in that period before it started to go downhill they were competing for influence in afghanistan and said you had them building these big project. they were moving the society forward in very significant ways. there's always been a very poor country that people are just astonished to realize it is a sad experiment. there was an alternate trajectory that was possible and i do think that we have that historical determinism that after the fact that was inevitable. what i like about your book is that it actually forces us to get away from that sleazy have that that it always was in this way and that is the core that people strike afghanistan. so quick question and then we will move on to the next example. you and i both lived in russia. how did you come away from your story of a soviet engageme
policy is a terrific essay called once upon a time in afghanistan. and people just can't get enough. there are women in pencil skirts and -- the sort of hang out clubs and stuff and there was a sense of afghanistan on a trajectory of the development trajectory and in that period before it started to go downhill they were competing for influence in afghanistan and said you had them building these big project. they were moving the society forward in very significant ways. there's always been a...
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so it's really interesting how you get this interception of foreign policy and entertainment, and celebrity. by the time you are in the first world war, the government completely embraces america's mass entertainment, especially the techniques of getting the word out about the american perspective on world war i. so there's this very interesting government organization set up called the committee on public information. and this basically function as a propaganda arm of the u.s. government. not just putting messages out about what the world sees about america's involvement in the war but also it becomes deeply involved in those messages by censoring motion pictures. so in lower manhattan the naval intelligence is involved or they have several dozen people working in, i'm not sure they are dark rooms, maybe they have windows. they have physicists and a look at films that hollywood is producing and they basically say if you want to export this who oversees you have to get rid of these particular things. so all of the great american hollywood producers, directors, all of them have their film su
so it's really interesting how you get this interception of foreign policy and entertainment, and celebrity. by the time you are in the first world war, the government completely embraces america's mass entertainment, especially the techniques of getting the word out about the american perspective on world war i. so there's this very interesting government organization set up called the committee on public information. and this basically function as a propaganda arm of the u.s. government. not...
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of a speech writer and foreign policy adviser for'' well also the author of factive creation that received the harry s. truman book award. our friend tom brokaw will play a key role in this discussion in the future of liberalism. his career of one of the great american and light weight gretzky. [laughter] >> i can stand on skates but that is if. [laughter] >> he said he always skated to where the couple was going to be but tom brokaw had done that from generation to generation. he was as anchor and managing editor of "nbc nightly news." killed the man in the history of nbc to host the "today show" the night of the news did meet the press which is the york media circles that is the holy trinity. [laughter] the only american network acre in berlin at the collapse of sobol. it is not clear what happened. [laughter] he captured the sacrifices of the greatest generation quality that phrase it is generous and kind a and wise and a great man he played an invaluable role'' of all large swaths of american viewers. to be steady in times of crisis he just finished a landmark documentary of president
of a speech writer and foreign policy adviser for'' well also the author of factive creation that received the harry s. truman book award. our friend tom brokaw will play a key role in this discussion in the future of liberalism. his career of one of the great american and light weight gretzky. [laughter] >> i can stand on skates but that is if. [laughter] >> he said he always skated to where the couple was going to be but tom brokaw had done that from generation to generation. he...
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again i know a lot of foreign-policy experts say really? that's like frosting on the cake and what difference does it make? put on your formal to the meetings. i can tell you at at that the people-to-people you sent there was a young american man who was studying in china and a young chinese woman who was studying in the united states and we have picked them out to speak to the group she in english and he and mandarin about their experiences in each other's country. i am convinced that helps to convince the chinese government that we would do this deal. i said in my prepared remarks this is what the future should be about, young people like us working together understanding each other better visiting and finding common ground. that is what we should be looking for. and so later that afternoon we were able to make the deal and mr. chen and his family were able to leave but i think it was part of a broader story not just a one-off. >> i think the story which is fascinating is as you said an absolute example of that thickening of relationships
again i know a lot of foreign-policy experts say really? that's like frosting on the cake and what difference does it make? put on your formal to the meetings. i can tell you at at that the people-to-people you sent there was a young american man who was studying in china and a young chinese woman who was studying in the united states and we have picked them out to speak to the group she in english and he and mandarin about their experiences in each other's country. i am convinced that helps to...
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to institutions that we generally need in washington for the making of foreign policy. and of course, the expanded nato. it made no sense and the cold war is ending. it took credit for the winning of the cold war and more members from russia, even as george bush did, the former republic of the soviet union. into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about that. and then finally clinton lost his nerve on things of this country needed to do in terms of international agreements. we need to be part of this be part of this ban on cluster bombs. all of the nations have signed these packs. it is what they call the rogue nations, and then we have the united states. then we get to george bush, and it is possible to talk about those eight years. the fact that this country reelected him does not say very much for any of us anywhere. always had misuse of intelligence to a certain degree. the mexican war in the 1840s, the spanish-american war. in vietnam as well. that was based on the misuse of intelligence. but you never had systematic distortion of intelligence t
to institutions that we generally need in washington for the making of foreign policy. and of course, the expanded nato. it made no sense and the cold war is ending. it took credit for the winning of the cold war and more members from russia, even as george bush did, the former republic of the soviet union. into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about that. and then finally clinton lost his nerve on things of this country needed to do in terms of international agreements....
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foreign policy with all the potential implications for u.s. national-security and for our ally israel should not be done in haste. should not be done carelessly or thoughtlessly. all the ramifications of such a change, and it certainly should not be tacked on to the transportation, housing, and urban development appropriations bill. it is far to inform -- important decision. and in my view and it is ill-advised to make foreign policy on the fly without due consideration of all of the consequences. a bill that has been referred to the foreign relations committee. last year the committee held its first extensive hearing. the committee will continue to work on this issue and to look at the appropriate policy options through a deliberative process. we need time to determine whether the process under way in egypt will meet the demands of the egyptian people and lead back to democracy or of the military leaders will dig in further and therefore in vote restrictions in u.s. law with respect to assistance. our patients is not unlimited, and our assist
foreign policy with all the potential implications for u.s. national-security and for our ally israel should not be done in haste. should not be done carelessly or thoughtlessly. all the ramifications of such a change, and it certainly should not be tacked on to the transportation, housing, and urban development appropriations bill. it is far to inform -- important decision. and in my view and it is ill-advised to make foreign policy on the fly without due consideration of all of the...
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it doesn't make foreign policy priority. i don't understand why the president did not go to the summit. if he decided not to negotiate with republicans, he was putting himself above the battle and a subtly suggesting that it is up to the congress to work out the difficulties i think the foreign policy would be a priority the responsible thing for him to do would be to go and reassure the other leaders that this crisis would be resolved and that america remains the only superpower. i was really offended by the president talking about american exceptional was some only several weeks ago in the situation where the administration clearly does not think that if you're talking about being exceptional you have to act responsibly otherwise those words have no meaning. when senator obama in 2008 began reading on primary after another, the future first lady michelle obama said that this was the first time she was proud of america. when she was questioned about the statement which was pretty remarkable has a presidential contender, for
it doesn't make foreign policy priority. i don't understand why the president did not go to the summit. if he decided not to negotiate with republicans, he was putting himself above the battle and a subtly suggesting that it is up to the congress to work out the difficulties i think the foreign policy would be a priority the responsible thing for him to do would be to go and reassure the other leaders that this crisis would be resolved and that america remains the only superpower. i was really...
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they had an impact on the president, foreign policy and public opinion. by the time of pearl harbor thanks in large part to this push that people made, public attitudes -- in 1949 and even in the early part of 1940s this country was heavily isolationist. by the time of pearl harbor the american people were well aware they would have to have the fight to answer this war. most came to the conclusion it was necessary. according to polls in 1941, substantial majority of the u.s. population now are regarded defeating nazi is and as the biggest job facing the country and a similar majority preferred u.s. entry into the war to a german victory over britain blue psychological and emotional separation for war was one major reason for the immediate unity of the country, once war was declared against japan, germany and italy. after all the bitter conflict of the previous two years america was finally ready to claim its future. thank you. [applause] >> now we come to the favorite part, at least for me of my talk and that is questions and comments. anybody? there is a
they had an impact on the president, foreign policy and public opinion. by the time of pearl harbor thanks in large part to this push that people made, public attitudes -- in 1949 and even in the early part of 1940s this country was heavily isolationist. by the time of pearl harbor the american people were well aware they would have to have the fight to answer this war. most came to the conclusion it was necessary. according to polls in 1941, substantial majority of the u.s. population now are...
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i just want to go back and said foreign policy. we don't have the luxury if we want to compete in the global economy we must compete. i agree with senator corker. maybe we should have been up for an economic position but will you utilize the state to try to get the president to work with us to solve the issue because this is a matter of prioritizing spending and i don't think we can continue to tax the american economy. we need economic growth but it's about prioritizing spending. i have conservative beliefs foreign aid can be useful, but we have to get our spending out of control. we utilize the position to encourage the president to work with us in good faith to solve the debt and deficit issue >> i spent six months i guess it was or five months as a member of the super committee. and i put an enormous amount of energy and hope that we would be able to get the bigger bargain. i'm not here to go through the details of why we didn't, that there was a very hard line monitor negotiating position that prevented us from being able to c
i just want to go back and said foreign policy. we don't have the luxury if we want to compete in the global economy we must compete. i agree with senator corker. maybe we should have been up for an economic position but will you utilize the state to try to get the president to work with us to solve the issue because this is a matter of prioritizing spending and i don't think we can continue to tax the american economy. we need economic growth but it's about prioritizing spending. i have...
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we spend more money in one day, today's in afghanistan in the entire foreign policy budget. just to give you a sense so any sense of a dramatic move we are at the very early stages which barely has been a diplomatic set of emissions over time that the court is not just money by people we have very able people in our government most of whom with a current environment focused on the middle east. i could identify 10 or 15 senior generals foreign policy players, those who know everything there is to know about post conflict reconstruction efforts. there is nothing comparable to compare it to. >> the secretary of united states is preoccupied with the mideast. it comes back to the question of the special armed forces then use been the amount of time. >> secretary kerry has made a very profound and deep personal commitment. >> it is a strategist and the day in the employment of activities come it is a hard thing to do that job period to be secretary of state at the same time. >> but should the president to avoid the special envoy? >> i thought you were going to ask the of the quest
we spend more money in one day, today's in afghanistan in the entire foreign policy budget. just to give you a sense so any sense of a dramatic move we are at the very early stages which barely has been a diplomatic set of emissions over time that the court is not just money by people we have very able people in our government most of whom with a current environment focused on the middle east. i could identify 10 or 15 senior generals foreign policy players, those who know everything there is...
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share with us if you have views on foreign policy but as a european observer of america, what should we be doing in that part of the world? >> guest: let me back a little bit. i quote somewhere in one of them books, a famous remark of bismarck, what would be the decisive factor for the 20th-century, 1898 i believe. he said surprising his friend the fact that americans speak english. that would be the decisive factor in this century and he was right. you ask -- >> host: what did he mean? >> guest: what he meant by that was the world power than was britain and within 20 years it declined and faded and the vacuum was filled not by the victor in some european conflict, germany, france or whatever but by the united states and what became the american century. if you ask today there's no one factor in the twenty-first but there are three vital factors and what is interesting to me is they all touch on religion. the first one is the one you are raising. can and will islam modernize peacefully? come back to that. the second great one, which faith will replace marxism in china? everyone in ch
share with us if you have views on foreign policy but as a european observer of america, what should we be doing in that part of the world? >> guest: let me back a little bit. i quote somewhere in one of them books, a famous remark of bismarck, what would be the decisive factor for the 20th-century, 1898 i believe. he said surprising his friend the fact that americans speak english. that would be the decisive factor in this century and he was right. you ask -- >> host: what did he...
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have had the great society energy and commitment that johnson had because kennedy was essentially a foreign-policy president. that is to say politics can unseat you but foreign politics can kill you. he would have run against barry goldwater and would have won it did victory the way johnson did. he would have carried big democratic majorities into the house and senate with him and i think he would have gotten the big tax cut, the federal aid to education, the medicare and the civil rights bills passed. that would have put him in the lead with the most progressive 20th century presidential reformers alongside t.r. and wilson and even compared somewhat to fdr but i don't think he would have pushed beyond that. i think he would have pushed toward dÉtente. i think we would have seen dÉtente earlier with kennedy then we did with richard nixon because that cuban missile crisis was so sobering and it was so khrushchev and they make the nuclear test ban treaty which eliminated the pollution and radiation in the atmosphere and i think kennedy saw this as an opening towards a push with the soviets and he
have had the great society energy and commitment that johnson had because kennedy was essentially a foreign-policy president. that is to say politics can unseat you but foreign politics can kill you. he would have run against barry goldwater and would have won it did victory the way johnson did. he would have carried big democratic majorities into the house and senate with him and i think he would have gotten the big tax cut, the federal aid to education, the medicare and the civil rights bills...
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national domestic issue of foreign policy. those are all things she could've ordered she decided to don e alaska gov and i think became someone whob is very well-paid, someone who has an ardent but relatively small on the scale of national politics and ardent but relatively small following that at this point i mean, i think the notion that she would ever be able to seek national office again without giving the path she's chosen is i think largely off the table. she, i think, you know, achieves the popularity she still has and will be able to live comfortably and marginally and influential life by continuing to take to the platforms that she currently has on cable television in facebook. she will continue to be a presence in our lives, if not a central presence going forward. >> surprised there wasn't a rousing applause. i misjudged the audience again. [laughter] [inaudible] [applause] >> it seems to many that since the day obama was elected, the republican goal has been to say no and to appeal to the community that wants to se
national domestic issue of foreign policy. those are all things she could've ordered she decided to don e alaska gov and i think became someone whob is very well-paid, someone who has an ardent but relatively small on the scale of national politics and ardent but relatively small following that at this point i mean, i think the notion that she would ever be able to seek national office again without giving the path she's chosen is i think largely off the table. she, i think, you know, achieves...
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. >> up next on booktv "after words" with guest host sub and eight of foreign-policy magazine talking with christian caryl on his book "strange rebels" 1979 and the birth of the 21st century. in the book is senior fellow at the center for international studies at m.i.t. argues a left-leaning consensus developed across the western world after world war ii and that counterrevolution represented a new era beginning in 1979 with the election of margaret hatcher is british prime minister in the overthrow of the shah and iran. this is about an hour. >> host: hello christian caryl. we are here to talk about your terrific new book "strange rebels" 1979 and the birth of the 21st century. i'm going to let you explain why it is that 1979 was the crucial pinpointed history but let me first start out with a little bit of explanation for what i think is a really unusual book that you have done. i know it's a real labor of love but christian for those of you joining us today is a longtime "newsweek" foreign correspondent and contributor to the new york review of books as well as my colleague who con
. >> up next on booktv "after words" with guest host sub and eight of foreign-policy magazine talking with christian caryl on his book "strange rebels" 1979 and the birth of the 21st century. in the book is senior fellow at the center for international studies at m.i.t. argues a left-leaning consensus developed across the western world after world war ii and that counterrevolution represented a new era beginning in 1979 with the election of margaret hatcher is british...
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jimmy carter made it the centerpiece of the foreign policy. he took the first step to the peace in the middle east with the camp david accord. he was hurt by the iranian hostage crisis but it did bring them back alive. he is the best past president of modern times. humor, not much. but his mother supplied the laughs when she said sometimes when i look at my children i wish i had remained a virgin. [laughter] and i like what castaneda said. she said i don't mind carter being born again but did he have to come back as himself? [laughter] and i remember interviewing ms. lillian, carper's mother in georgia in 1976. she was still fuming over the women correspondence who had the labor that the campaign promise never to lie and kept asking why does he really mean by that? finally he said do you why? i might tell a little white lie. what do you mean cracks and public suspiration she said do you remember when you came through that door and i told you how beautiful you looked? [laughter] well, that is a beautiful little white lie. ronald reagan turned t
jimmy carter made it the centerpiece of the foreign policy. he took the first step to the peace in the middle east with the camp david accord. he was hurt by the iranian hostage crisis but it did bring them back alive. he is the best past president of modern times. humor, not much. but his mother supplied the laughs when she said sometimes when i look at my children i wish i had remained a virgin. [laughter] and i like what castaneda said. she said i don't mind carter being born again but did...
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it's also, to my mind, the most remarkable speech in foreign policy that i know. because on like every other foreign policy speech it was not directed at our counterparts. it was erected at our counterparts, but highly indirectly. it was directed at americans. that is an incredible and brave thing to do. kennedy said, some say that it is useless to speak of peace or wall world disarmament and that it will be useless until the leaders of the soviet union adopt a more enlightened attitude. i hope to do. i believe we can help them to do with, but i also believe that we must reexamine our own attitudes as individuals and the nation. for our attitude is as essential as there's. this is a language presidents to use, calling on americans to reexamine our own attitudes. at the height of the cold war and with regard to what was viewed as the of mortal enemy to the death over the future of the planet, the soviet union. first, examine our attitude toward peace itself, he says. to many of us think it impossible. to many think it on real, but that is a dangerous, defeatist bel
it's also, to my mind, the most remarkable speech in foreign policy that i know. because on like every other foreign policy speech it was not directed at our counterparts. it was erected at our counterparts, but highly indirectly. it was directed at americans. that is an incredible and brave thing to do. kennedy said, some say that it is useless to speak of peace or wall world disarmament and that it will be useless until the leaders of the soviet union adopt a more enlightened attitude. i hope...